"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."

-- Maya Angelou

#Inspirational Quotes #Strength Quotes #Inspiring Quotes

“There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone else. You line up three or four well-known poets and a couple of eminent academics on the dustjacket, and the rest of academe follow like sheep. That's death really, if you take pleasure in it. Mind you, the occasional puff's hard to resist, but you shouldn't inhale.”

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
“If I'm fighting for the possibility of having a kind of desire and possibility, that right now is not too likely, it gives me a different kind of engagement with the future, than if I say, "sex doesn't matter; it's private."”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.”

Source : Danny Silk (2009). “Loving Our Kids on Purpose”, p.130, Destiny Image Publishers
“Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.”
“I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.”
“Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.”
“I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty.”

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